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Monday, June 24, 2013

Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, PC 1945-2013

_.The Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, a life peer, Lord Advocate of Scotland 1989-92, died 22 June, 2013, aged 68. Peter Lovat Fraser was b 29 May, 1945, a son of the Rev George Robson Fraser.
He was Conservative MP for Angus South 1979-83, and Angus East 1983-7, was PPS to the Sec of State for Scotland 1981-82, was Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1982-89, then Lord Advocate and a Minister of State, Scottish Office. Created a life baron in 1989, as Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, of Carmyllie in the District of Angus.
He married in 1969, Fiona, dau of Hugh Murray Mair, of Lanark, and had issue.
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